Fred Camper

uses multiple photographic images to create complex, nuanced, perceptual experiences for the viewer.  His works suggest journeys across time and space through ever deepening levels of awareness.  His motivation is to redirect the viewer toward varied, imaginative and life-affirming ways of seeing and reinterpreting the visible world.

Camper began making experimental films in his teens. He has published articles about Hollywood, avant-garde and foreign cinema for four decades and has taught film at various colleges and universities as well as lecturing on the topic throughout the world.  His undergraduate degree in physics is from MIT.  Fred was an art critic and arts journalist for the Chicago Reader for two decades writing mostly on contemporary art and cinema.  He is published in ArtNEWS, the Chicago Tribune and many other periodicals as well.

Fred’s “Permutations 1: Reuss River” series recently opened at Flatfile Galleries to a glowing review from Victor Cassidy in Focus Fine Art Photography Magazine.

Camper is an avid bicyclist who has never owned an automobile.  His artistic perspective is fundamentally shaped by his self-propulsion to and through the places that are the subject of his work.  This relationship tempered with his life-long study of cinema, painters like van Eyck and Gerhard Richter, architecture and classical music is what brings depth and clarity to Fred’s work.  Fred resides in Chicago, Illinois.